Improvement in stockings



C. E. WAKEMAN.

, sTocKING. No174,339. Patented Feb.29;1876

N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAFHER. WASNINGYON. D. G.

` ing my invention.

UNITED STATES PATENTHQFFI E CHARLES E. WAKEMAN, OF PONTIAC, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO PORTER A. HITCHCOCK, OF SAME PLACE. l

IMPROVEMENT IN STOCKINGS.

.Specific-ation forming part of Letters Patent No. 174,339, dated February 29, 1876; application filed December 28, 1875.

To all lwhom fmag/ concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. WAKE- MAN, of Pontiac, in the county of Oakland and in the State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stockings; and do hereby declare that the follow` ing is a full, clear, and exact-glescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and -to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specicatioi'i.

My invention relates to ordinary knit socks; and it consists in passing a knit woolen sock through aA fulling-machine, of the usual construction, to thicken the sock, and pnt a nap on the same. It also consists in lining such sock with a sei-ies of rows of yarn loops, all as hereinafter more Jr'nlly set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which lny invention appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe its construction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which- Y Figure 1 is a side View ot' a sock embody- Fig. 2 shows the mode o making the interior lining. A represents a woolen sock, made on an ordinary knitting-machine in the usual manner,

with the heel separated from the foot, the

heel being afterward properly shaped and united to the foot. The sock is then placed in an ordinary falling-machine, and there inanipulated in the manner usual. to suoli machines, whereby the sock is fulled and thickened, and anap put ou the outside and inside thereof. v y

Alter the sock has been thus prepared' it is lined throughout by means ot' a series ot' circumferential rows ot' woolen loops, B, sewed in by hand or otherwise, as shown, forming a soft, yielding, and pliable lining.

The sock thus made may be used without I C. E. WAKEMAN.

Witnesses:

J M. MAsoN, H. A. HALL. 

